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Old 18-04-2004, 11:16   #6
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Re: Strange black bar on local BBC1 progs

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Originally Posted by paulyoung666
has it done it since you got the tv or has it just started ????????
Since I got it - this is also the second new TV (the first went back with a fault) and both had the same "feature".

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Originally Posted by MikeyB
A lot of the BBC local news stuff is not recorded in widescreen, so the BBC broadcast it in an "in-between 4:3 and 16:9" format.
It does mean that if watching in widescreen you will see small black bars at the side of the screen.

They should be visible at both the left & right side of the screen, so it sounds as if either your STB is not showing the full picture, or the picture on your TV is not quite central which is the more probable cause.
Sounds like a possibility - I will give it check. Pretty sure the picture is central though as it looks fine on other stuff where you would notice things missing off the side of the screens like other channels displaying graphics right up to the edge of the picture. I suppose if the box was displaying an incomplete picture it would show up there as well?

Also looks fine on PS2 games - (although that's using a different scart input it shouldn't be any different should it ???) As I said, this is the second TV (Sony 28" 100Hz Wega) and both have done this - there is a RGB centering option in menu but it doesn't allow me to select it when set to the cable box (which is set to RGB output btw).
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